Membership & Services
Join Bute Sons & Daughters Family History Society!
The Family History Society was launched in March 2007 as a means of generating some income since the original funding for the Bute Sons & Daughters project has long finished. Those who join will be immediately entitled to the following:
- Access to the Genealogy section of the website (which was free during its introductory stage);
- Receipt of our quarterly Newsletter 'The Islander', full of fascinating information about the history and people of Bute.
- Access to ALL movie clips from the digital archive.
- Access to online census data. This is a new feature, launched in May 2007.
Membership of the Family History Society is £12 per annum, payable by cheque made out to Bute Sons and Daughters and sent to our address at The Discovery Centre (see below), or by PayPal, a secure method of payment via the Internet. To join, click on the 'Subscribe' button below.
Family History Research
People who ask us to carry out Family History Research for them often ask if it is possible to pay online rather than send a cheque, especially if it is in a different currency. Until now we haven't been able to accommodate this, but we're pleased to say that we have now set up a secure online payment method for those who wish to pay this way. Simply click the button and follow the instructions.
For those who are wondering what the Family History Research service is all about, it's for those who have the interest but don't really have the time or inclination to spend lots of hours researching their family background. For our very modest fee of £48 we will trace one line of your family back 3 or 4 generations (more, of course, if we can). You will receive an iinformation pack' with absolutely as much information about your ancestors as our researchers have been able to find. This will include a family tree (with all names cross-referenced by number to a family group sheet included in the pack), copies of census returns and of course copies of all certificates ie. birth, marriage, death. We are sure you know that Bute Sons and Daughters is run by volunteers but we have to make a charge for this service to cover the cost of access to various records, possible travel costs for our researchers to check records on the mainland, and of course photocopying and postage charges. In the very unlikely event that we cannot find sufficient family information, the charge is of course modified. Our researchers are normally able to compile a fairly extensive family tree within 2-3 weeks, but of course this may vary depending on availability of information and their own commitments. If you would like more information please drop us an email.
Mailing List
We run a mailing list for those who want to be kept up to date with developments at the Bute Sons & Daughters project. It's free and we promise we will never give your email address to anybody else. We will only use the mailing list to send you our own news and not for any other purpose.
We expect that we might send you some news once a month, and it's unlikely to be more often than once a month, so we won't be filling your mailbox with rubbish, either. If you'd like to join our mailing list then use this link to sign up...
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